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(TL;DR: I'm fine but must prioritize and focus on the important and urgent stuff.)
The new house renovations take most of my energy, but progress is great and we're ahead of schedule.
We replaced almost all interior walls with plaster walls. We wanted to keep the old concrete walls to save some money, but some of them were diagonal or extremely thin and fragile: we had to get rid of the wall between the kitchen and the bathroom, because it was super thin after the removal of the ceramic tiles on both sides. The replacement wall has a small indentation, so the fridge is aligned with the cupboards around it and doesn't stick out. On the other side of this wall, we'll put a wide bathroom cabinet that aligns with this protrusion in the wall, and the washing machine will hide the step.
The bathroom floor and the bathroom wall tiles are almost done, and the kitchen flooring consists of 7 large stripes, so this shouldn't take long.
Now we only need to:
1. Install the kitchen window, the bathroom window and things like the toilet
2. Paint the house
3. Find out what happened to the lamps we bought, receive and install them ASAP
4. Find a cleaning company that's available at this time of the year (around Rosh Hashanah) for fair prices, and clean the house ASAP
5. Reschedule the parquet flooring and interior door installation from November to early October, right after the cleaning
6. Install the water heating solution
7. Reschedule the delivery of necessities (like a new mattress and a washing machine) from December to late October, once we're done with the floor
8. Move our stuff to the new house
9. Go over our list of deals and order the TV, stove, etc' we chose, then install everything
10. Make sure the kitchen is still planned for installation in late November
11. Buy and install a glass door for the shower
We're running out of budget, but I keep track of everything in a spreadsheet. All future costs are 1.5-2x padded, so I think it'll be fine.
Fun!
I'm exhausted, and this affects my playing. It's really hard for me to switch between the trumpet and the flugelhorn, especially when I don't use the same mouthpiece diameter. I lose my stamina quickly and I feel like I'm always out of tune for several minutes after every switch.
On Thursday, a fellow trumpeter said I don't sound good, and that made me sad, although I understand I'm pushing beyond my limits with all the things going on :(
It's very hot, and this affects my skin. I don't sleep well, because I wake up at 2-3 AM to scratch.
And, to make things works, I have yet another tinea versicolor infection on my neck and I just hate this. It looks like a really bad rash and I hate this tingling sensation. I need to shave more often to make help the antifungal soap do its job, but I don't shave as often as I'd like because I have to wake up early to oversee the house renovations.
I submitted my research proposal about the small web, my instructor seems to like it, and now I need to write a long 30 page essay. I'm currently waiting for things to settle a bit, because I just feel overwhelmed and can't concentrate.
gplaces no longer redirects stdout and stderr of children to /dev/null. Now, it's possible to use tools like chafa to display images, and it works very nicely under foot.
It still attaches /dev/null to stdin, and maybe I'll change it soon, to allow gplaces to run ncurses-based applications.
The ESP32 powering this capsule has over a month (maybe even 1.5 months) of uptime. This is great!
Work on HiDPI support in the traditional Puppy themes is underway:
This work is included in the "Wayland MVP" milestone:
Although GTK+ 4 and GNOME applications don't want to be themed, once the GTK+ 3 themes scale nicely, I want to see if I port them to GTK+ 4 in the name of visual consistency across GTK+ 2, 3 and 4.
In addition, I'm gradually polishing and cleaning up the dwl-based flavor of dpup. Contrast is good, keyboard shortcuts are easy to remember and the "snail" layout is still very comfortable for me. foot still works nicely, and now uses TERM=foot, so chafa can activate its sixel support. The recently released tofi 0.6.0 works nicely and respects the chosen scale factor.
SpaceFM is becoming more usable and more stable, and I think it's a keeper for the dwl flavor, while the JWM flavor sticks with ROX-Filer:
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